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You could have watched Sunday night’s NFL game on NBC. You could have watched the Chicago Cubs play the Mets in New York on a date that will live in history.
Jim Cornelison performs the national anthem 9/11/11 at the Falcons-Bears game at Solider Field in Chicago.
September 11.
You could add the year, 2001. But it almost seems superfluous. September 11 resonates like no other date most of us can recall or have experienced. Even if you weren’t touched directly by the terrorist attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Center, there is no way to avoid being touched indirectly.
And so it was that instead of sports or other form of entertainment, some of us spent a good part of the evening watching CBS, which featured an update of the documentary that two French brothers — Jules and Gedeon Naudet –made from inside the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
If a sobering reminder of 9/11/01 was needed, the documentary more than served that purpose. The video was a sharp contrast to the tributes played out elsewhere, especially at sporting events. If you wanted uplifting, there was Jim Cornelison’s stirring rendition of the national anthem before the Atlanta Falcons-Chicago Bears game at Soldier Field.
It’s interesting how a decade can pass so quickly and then to have such forceful footage as in the documentary bring you back to the day when terror hit close to home — regardless of physical proximity to the World Trade ter.
And to contemplate the role plays in the whole scenario. How important in the aftermath. How trivial.
For those who treat sports as a life-and-death proposition, September 11 surely is cause for pause.